ligga
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Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]ligga (present tense ligg, past tense låg, past participle lege, passive infinitive liggast, present participle liggande, imperative ligg)
- Alternative form of liggja
Noun
[edit]ligga n
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish liggia, from Old Norse liggja, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]ligga (present ligger, preterite låg, supine legat, imperative ligg)
- to lie; be in a horizontal position
- Hon låg på marken
- She was lying on the ground
- to lie; to be placed, situated, or located
- Boken ligger på bordet
- The book is lying on the table
- Han ligger etta / Han ligger först / Han ligger på första plats
- He's in first place
- Visby ligger på Gotland
- Visby is located on Gotland (an island)
- Byn ligger fem kilometer härifrån
- The village is five kilometers from here
- to be enrolled (at a university)
- Han låg i Umeå
- He studied (at the university) in Umeå
- (colloquial, transitively with med (“with”)) to have sex (with)
- Jag har legat med honom
- I have had sex with him
- Har ni legat?
- Have you had sex?
- Fick du ligga?
- Did you score?
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of ligga (class 5 strong)
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | ligga | liggas | ||
Supine | legat | legats | ||
Imperative | ligg | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | liggen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | ligger | låg | liggs, ligges | lågs |
Ind. plural1 | ligga | lågo | liggas | lågos |
Subjunctive2 | ligge | låge | ligges | låges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | liggande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived terms
[edit]- lagt kort ligger
- ligg
- ligga bakom (“be behind”)
- ligga i lä
- ligga lågt
- ligga med
- ligga runt (“sleep around”)
- ligga över
- lägga
References
[edit]- ligga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ligga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ligga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Fula Ordboken
- ligga in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Categories:
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ-
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk class 5 strong verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ-
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Swedish colloquialisms
- Swedish strong verbs
- Swedish class 5 strong verbs